Control Windows with Salt

This long article explores Windows management with Salt. First, it shows you how to automatically install software to Windows, control Windows boxes behind NAT and firewall and remotely run arbitrary PowerShell commands on Windows. $ sudo salt ‘*’ pkg.install gedit,firefox,steam,vlc … Continue reading

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Salt State with Multiple SLS Files

One salt state can have multiple SLS files. Other files are included from init.sls, so you can just use folder name to run the whole multi file state.

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Salt Master-Minion with Ubuntu 14.04 LTS – Control Your Slaves over the Internet

Would you like to control many computers (slaves, minions) from one master computer? Salt-minions connect to master to retrieve instructions. Slaves then configure themselves to the target state: they install software, make settings and start daemons.

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